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diff --git a/content/lenin/the-three-sources-and-three-component-parts-of-marxism/_index.md b/content/lenin/the-three-sources-and-three-component-parts-of-marxism/_index.md index f88ddb1..3be9f37 100644 --- a/content/lenin/the-three-sources-and-three-component-parts-of-marxism/_index.md +++ b/content/lenin/the-three-sources-and-three-component-parts-of-marxism/_index.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This article was published in 1913 in *Prosveshcheniye* No. 3, dedicated to th The journal was suppressed by the tsarist government in June 1914, on the eve of the First World War. Publication was resumed in the autumn of 1917 but only one double number appeared; this number contained two articles by Lenin: “Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?” and “A Review of the Party Programme”. -## Preamble +## Introduction Throughout the civilised world the teachings of Marx evoke the utmost hostility and hatred of all bourgeois science (both official and liberal), which regards Marxism as a kind of “pernicious sect”. And no other attitude is to be expected, for there can be no “impartial” social science in a society based on class struggle. In one way or another, *all* official and liberal science *defends* wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naïve as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers’ wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital. |